Quotes of: Moral-principles Keyword

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

Lord Melbourne

A philosophy a system of principles that will guide your thoughts and actions.

Napoleon Hill

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Jane Smiley

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

Stephen Covey

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

Howard Schultz

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

Marvin Bower

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

Patricia Ireland

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Stephen Covey

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

William Henry Harrison

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

Mike Ross

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

Sidney Poitier

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

Giotto di Bondone

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

Ernest Renan

No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

Henry F. Ashurst

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Soren Kierkegaard

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Andrew O'Hagan

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Huey Long

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Samuel Johnson

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.

Charles W. Pickering